only newspaper IN'TRANSYLVANIA COIlNn J. J. MIN^, OWNER AND MANAGER V > : ■■■ — '■ ■—■ ’ —— : A HOME PAPER FOR HOME P®O^^ILjE3^AIJL. HOME PRIOT : '-t ' ’ t —= — / VOLUME^XVI BREYARD, NORTff^^AEOLEfA, FRIDAY. lAY 26.1911. ,, ^ NUMBER*19 f- ^ ' ' O ^ i , k' -cl ■Ct'H mmm^m M 1* 4 supreme court of the United States almost unanimously decided that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey’is a monopoly news oimpSllOtS andlnust therefore dissol(Ve. Samuel Gompers, president, and Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers. Of America, were freed by the supreme court of the six to IDC fTCeiL twelve months' imprisonment sentences imposed by the District of Ctoluihbia supreme court. Mrs. William H. Taft was taken suddenly ill in New ,York while attending a banquet in honor of the president Porfirio Dia^ ajccord|ng to reports, /has decided to give up the presidency of Mexico on June 1. Francisco de la Barra will succeed him until an election is held. Pic*tur« «f the battle of J*nartez show realistic war scenes Henry L. Stimson has up his dUttes as secretory of war, succeeding Jacob M. Di^lpson, who "rerfgn^ CLOSE OF REUNION A GREAT^SUCCESS Grizzled Veterans Bid Good bye to Little Rook. PLEASED WITH RECEPTION Convention of the United Confederate Veterans’ Association Comes to an End at Little Rock—IVIost Success ful and Enjoyabe Reunion. Friday the last of the gn^izzled vet erans of the lost cause left Little fiock, and the gathering pas^bd Into history. ' The convention of Confederate vet erans ended with the grand parade and the annual Confederate veterans’ ball. All the old soldiers who remained In the city were escorted to their trains and presented with baskets of lunches by the Daughters of the Con federacy. It is remarkable that the parade was attended with but few accidents and no fatal results. There were sev eral of the war-worn soldiegrs who found that they were not, able to withstand the tiresome treadmill of the parade, and succumbed to the heat, but they were speedily cared for, and all soon recovered. • While bands played wartime airs, the soldiers of the old south marched through the streets of Little Rock in their twenty-first annual parade. Their commander-in-chief, Gen. Geo. W. Gordon, of Memphis,. Tenn.' was confined to his room by the order of physicians. As the line of march passed the hotel, the veterans saluted. The reviewing stand, that had been intended for officers, was given over to aged and infirm veterans, although many were in line who had lost a leg, an arm or were l^ed from wounds received at war. Governor 5fonaghey^ of Arkansas, with his or derly and private secretary, occupied a carriage in the parade. The lasti event of this year’s re union was the Confederate ball, which was given at the auditorium, attended by those who, remained for that purpose and who included digni taries of the United Confederate Vet erans and kindred organizations. The next reunion will be held ct Macon. Ga. BRIBEItT Illinois State Senate is Not Through With Lorimer Election Scandal. A Springfield, 111., dispatch says: The charges of bribery in the election of William Lorimer to the United States senate will be pushed by the Btate senate to the limit, following the adoption of a resolution in that oody, which declares that the seat was obtained by bribery and Corrup tion. The resolution passed by a ■vote of 39 to 10, and recommendation was made to \he United States sen ate to push the investigation with all aste. Evidence which was gathered y the state senate investigating ^mmlttee recently, connecting Ed- ard Hines, the lumber millionaire and Edward Tilden, head of the beef fuat, with the raising and distribu- of an alleged $100,000 corruption und which was used to buy votes in legislature, will be presented to ^oe senate. ®^t;e senate de- senate n.ioJ state by re,nrf- Added to this, the -®Sa!ut!oiL. embodied a iwhnlro Judge Edelo^Petit, of Chicago, who relieved Tilden and two of his asso ciates from testifying or producing documentary evidence demanded by the, committee on a writ of habeas corpus. j It was declared at Springfield, 111., that the Helm committee would use every means In its power to punish Tilden for contempt in refusing to ap pear before It. It is probable he will be forced to show his books in the investigation of the part played in the bribery by State Senators Broderick and Pem berton, who are alleged to have been the go-|betweens. COTTON SHORT. 6 NEGROES LYNCHED- BY FMA MOB Held at Lake (Sly on Ct^e ot KlllliSLunitem BODIES (IIDDIB^BY BUUHS Bull Leader Declares That There Is Not Enough to Go Around. “There is not enough cotton to go around,” declared Frank B. Hayne, prominent bull leadfer and local cot ton buyer, of New Orleans. He caused excitement in the New Or leans exchange by offering to buy 200,000 b^les of May and July at the market price, • then going one better by offering an eighth of a cent higher than the exchange quotations for all j sawmill man, at Wadesborough, Leon the ‘cotton in the city. county, and wounding another man, , “We know how much cotton we i namfed Register, on May 12. The Lynchers Visited the Lake City Jail During the Sheriff’s Absence and Presented Bogus Order to Young Son to Deliver Negroes. Masquerading as officers of the law, a dozen men appeared before the county Jail at 2^ o’cjp^ Sunday at Lake City, Fla., ^na !^resented a bogus telegram to the creaulous 16- year-old son of the sheriff ordering the release of Mark Norris, Jr., Jerry, Gusto and four other negroes, who| had been held for safe keeping on the charge cf murdering B. B. Smith, a that be lay in ^wait for his victim. After Mrs. James told of the crime, dogs were put on the trail, and when he was ’ identified he confessed the crime. The sheriff vainly tried to get the mob to give up the criminal. The man’s prayers for mercy were cut ‘shicrt 'by the rope, which had been thrown over the cross of the little church. WROTE FAREWELL NOTE. will get between now and September 1,” he continued. “And there is not enough to keep the mills running, and some of them must close down. For the last two years the world has needed 27,000,000 bales, and all it wUl get will be 22,500,000 bales, or 4,500,- 000 bales short of the auount re quired, and what would have been used had the staple been grown. That Is the situation. I believe cotton will go higher.” SANGUINARY BATTLE. Streets of Cuautia Reported to Be Choked With Dead Bodies. A sanguinary battle was fought at Cuautia, twenty miles southeast of Cuernavaga, Mexico, between the fed eral garrison, under Colonel Mungula, and a force of rebels, commanded by Colonel Zapata. Fugitives arriving state that the streets of Cuautia are strewn with dead and wounded. A commission left for Cuautia car rying news of the armistice, which, it is hoped, will put an end to the fight ing. General Figueroa is leading 3,000 rebel troops from Igualaga, pre- sumabljr en route for this city. Cuernavacia is the capital of the state of Morelos, and is forty miles south of Mexico City. Cuautia is a town of about 8,000, in Morelos. MEETING PLACE CHOSEN. Baptists Name Oklahoma City for i. 1912 Convention. Oklahoma City has been chosen as the next place of meeting by the Southern Baptist convention, which has been in session at Jacksonville, Fla. The convention unanimously in dorsed President Taft's plans for lit ternational peace. FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT. David Upchurch Meets Instant Death When His Car Goes Over Bluff. David Upchurch was instantly killed and his companion, Dick Hall, probably fatally injured at Selma, Ala., when their automobile ran over the embankment of the Alabama river at the foot of Church street in SeUna. Both young men belong to promi nent families at Uniontown, Ala. Witnesses to the accident declare the machine struck a §econd bluff in its descent, turning a complete somer sault, and was crushed to splinters by the fall. Upchurch’s body •Was so badly crushed as to be unrecognizable. Negroes ^hot to Pieces. The men, who had come from Tal lahassee to Lake City in automobiles, carried the negroes about a mile out side cf Lake City, C9mpelled the ne groes to stand abreast, and about ten men commenced firing with winches ters and pistols, until every one of the six had been riddled with bullets. The. firing lasted about half an hiour, and a few straggling citizens at daybreak found the negroes, butch ered beyond recognition,' Just after the automobiles left the scene of the lynching. . Lynchers Traveled 106 Miles. The men who planned the execution of the six negroes came overland from Tallahassee, a distance of 106 miles, and covered most of' the dis tance at night. It is possible that the occupants of the two automobiles were never seen from the time they left Tallahassee until they returned. The plans of the men were the most daring, and but for a curious combination of circum stances probably would have never been accomplished. The sheriff of Columbia county was out of the city, and left the Jail in charge of the boy, who, aroused in the early hours of the morning, allowed the six negroes to be taken from the JaiF without knowing the sinister purpose of the mob. Lynching at Swainesboro. Ben Smith, the old negro preacher who shot and fatally wounded Neal Canady, deputy marshal of Summit, was hanged to a Unib and his body riddled with bullets by an infuriated mob. Canady was attempting to arrest Smith, for whom he had a warrant for shooting his wife. Before Canady could' arrest him, however, Sin|th pulled out a pistol, shooting the mar shal through the bowels, inflicting a probably fatal wound. As’ Canfidy fell he fired a shot at the fleeing ne gro, which struck him, but did not totally disable him. ’ LYNCHERS HANG MAN. Orkey Had Confessed to Committing an Outrage on a Woman. Praying vainly 'for mercy at the h^nds of a determined mob, John S. Orkey, a tramp, after confessing to having committed an assault on Mrs. Harvey James, wife of a miner, was hanged at Bluefields, ya., to the cross on a little church in the suburbs of the city. It was in the shadow of the church where his body w^ hanf^ed Then Macon Man Took Dose Which Ended His Life. The funeral of Chaj*ies Bailey, who killed himself last night by taking morphine, was held from Hart’s chapel, Macon, Ga. His brother, from Americus, who is said to be quite wealthy, was in attendance. Bailey was a gambler, it is said, and recently went broke. When his S^om was broken into, a note to his mother aftd one his found. He had written to his niiloth- ^er: “To My Dear Mother: Taking all things into consideration, I think this is the best way, so good-bye. I’ll meet 3^)u in the sweet by and bye.” To his brother, Wailter Bailey, lie re quested that his death be made cer tain before burial. Bailey was c46 years of age.- SOUTHERN BAPTISTS. Two Thousand Attend Jacksonville Convention. Delegates to the Southern Baptist convention met at Jarcksonville, Fla., this Week. / If is bellied that there will be fully 2,000 in attendance. , There are several candidates for the presidency. Dr. B. D. Gray, of At lanta, i* is said, will probaA>ly be elected. There are several cities bidding for the next convention. It will probably go to some <2lty west of the MlssiS' sippi river. VICTORIA MEMORIAL. Unveiling Marked by Scenes of Pomp « and Splendor. The Queen Victoria memorial was unveiled at London amid scenes of pomp and in the presence of British and German royalty. King George and Queen Mary of England and Em peror William and the empress of Germany walked from Buckingham palace to the scene of the .unveiling, while* a multitude cheered the mon; archs. The royal party walked from the grand entrance in the quadrangle to the grounds of Buckingham palace through the central archwaijj*^ and the new gateway to the statue. A guard of honor was drawn upon the quad rangle and the royal route was lined with soldiers and marines drawn up with presented arms. ^ A squad of mounted police rode through the streets wherein the royal party was to pass, while the “surveil lance sqiiad’* of Scotland Yard, under personal Wmmand of Superintendent Frost, kept a sharp lookout for an archists. The royal party ascended the steps of an especially constructed dais on the palace side of Victoria gardens, where they remaineid through the cer emonies. The scen4 was brilliant and inspiring. The mighty multitude upon the Mall made a brilliant setting with the gowns of the women and the uni forms of the soldiers and sailors. The privileged guests passed be tween lijie of soldiers and took up their stations. Both King Geprge ahd Emperor WHliam wore the uniforms of British field marshals, and tbeir breasts were covered with medals. They walked side by side, followed by the English queen and the German empress. Close beh&d the royal con sorts walked Princess Victoria of Frusta and other members of royalty, Profes^oiuil Cords. R. L. GASH. LAWYER. 11 and 12 McMiim Bnflding Notary Public. W. W. ZA0HARY Attorney-at«-Law BEEVAED, N. C. H. C. BAILEY Civfl and Consulting Engineer and Surveyor BREVARD AND HENDERSOKNILLE, N. C.- Coimty Govemment>. Representative—Thos. S. Wood. Clerk Superior Court— Cos. Paxton. Sheriff and Tax Collector—^Fred A. Shuford. Treasurer—Z. W. Nichols. Register of Deeds—B. A Gillespie. Coroner—Dr. A. K Lyday. Surveyor—^J. C. Wike. Commissioners—W. L. Brooks, G. T. Ly day, Arthur Miller. Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen derson. ^Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham. Attoniey—Robert L. Gash. Town GovenuneiiL. Mayor—W. E. Breese^ jr. Board of Aldermen—^. M. Henry, C. C. Kilpatrick, T. L. Snelson, W. S. Ashworth, 3.E. Cox. COMMrrTEES Streets—T. L.'Snelson, C. C. Kilpatrick, W. S. Ashworthi Water—C. C. Kilpatrick, W. M. Henry* . J. E. Cox. Sanitary—T. L. Snelson, C. C. Kilpat rick, W. S. Ashworth. J.E.COX. - Police—W. S. Ashworth, C. C. Kilpatrick, T. L. Snelson. Lights—J. E. Cox^ L. Snelson, C. C. Kilpatrick. 'i . Mayor Pro Tem.—W. M. Henry. Chief Fire Department—C. M. Doyle. Health Officer—W. J. Wallis. Policemen—T. B. Summey, M. W. Gallo way. Regular meetings—First Monday night in each month. STRINGS I have put in a full line of Violin, Banjo and Guitar Strings. The best quality at moder ate prices. Orders taken for all classes of musical instru ments. » p. R. AYRES. SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY Transylvaniil Division. In effect January 2,1911. N. B —Schedules figures given as infonnation only, and not guaranteed. O eJ Eastern Standard Time STATIONS P M 3 40 3 45 4 4-» 5 00 b 05 5 08 5 13 5 20 6 26 5 34 5 36 5 42 5 55 e 02 6 04 6 08 6 12 6 21 6 30 6 40 Lv Asheville J^r Lv „HendersonviHe...Ar ...West Hendersonville.. Yale Horse' Shoe Cannon Etowah Blantyre ...^.. Penrose Davidson River Pisgah Forest.. Ar Brevard ........Lv ..'Selica Cherryfleld ..Calvert.. Rosman Galloways , Quebec — Reid’s. Ar...Li^e Tozaway...Lv A M 11 30 •10 25 10 22 10 10 10 05 10 02 9 56 > 9 49 9 42 9 33 9 30 9 24 908 9 01 8 56 8 54 8 501 8 43 8 34 8 25 Nos. 5 and 6 are through trains between ARheville and Lake Toxaway. No. 5 eonnects at Hendersonville with the Carolina Special for Sj Charleston, and 12 for For tickets and fall information apply to B. W. CARTER, Ag’ fc. J. H. WOOD, Dist. Pass. Ag't, Asheville, 0^ ouDccis at wiw tne Ipecial for Spartanburg, Columbia and 1, and at Bpartanbmg with Noe. 11 Atlanta ana Charlotte. Administrator's Notice* ^. Having qualified as administrator of the estate of O. H. Lyon, deceased, late of Transylvonia county, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or be&re the 27th day of March, 1912, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recov ery. All persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate ^ttlement. This March 27th, 1911. A. a GILLESPIE, m31t6 * Administrator ChambeWs Coiigl! Remedy] \

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